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Are Short Food Supply Chains More Environmentally Sustainable than Long Chains? A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the Eco-Efficiency of Food Chains in Selected EU Countries [PDF]

Energies, 2020
Improving the eco-efficiency of food systems is one of the major global challenges faced by the modern world. Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are commonly regarded to be less harmful to the environment, among various reasons, due to their organizational
Edward Majewski, Anna Komerska, Jerzy Kwiatkowski, Agata Malak-Rawlikowska, Adam Wąs, Piotr Sulewski, Marlena Gołaś, Kinga Pogodzińska, Jean-Loup Lecoeur, Barbara Tocco, Áron Török, Michele Donati, Gunnar Vittersø   +12 more
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The resilience of short food supply chains during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of a direct purchasing network

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges to global food supply chains. Since the beginning of the pandemic researchers have studied various food supply chain issues influenced by the COVID-19 crisis, including impacts on consumer ...
Maija Ušča, Talis Tisenkopfs
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SMARTCHAIN - Towards Innovation-Driven and Smart Solutions in Short Food Supply Chains [PDF]

International Journal of Food Studies, 2022
In recent times, Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs), i.e., supply chains in which the number of intermediaries between farmer and consumer are minimal or ideally nil, and local markets have flourished in Europe, both in rural and urban areas. SMARTCHAIN is
Francisco Javier Casado Hebrard, Susanne Braun, Dimitrios Argyropoulos   +2 more
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Scoping Challenges and Opportunities Presented by COVID-19 for the Development of Sustainable Short Food Supply Chains [PDF]

Sustainability, 2022
Over the past decades, short food supply chains attracted government and public support owing to their potential to mitigate some of the sustainability issues associated with the conventional globalized food supply system.
Matos, Nelson, Alves, Helena, Nuno Baptista, Baptista, Nuno, Nelson Matos, Helena Alves   +5 more
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Short Agri-Food Supply Chains: A Proposal in a Food Bank

, 2020
Many communities are interested in acquiring healthy food without pesticides and chemical preservatives. At the same time, they want to protect local production and cultural characteristics. In this sense, the academy starts to discuss a change in food supply chains and called of Short Agri-Food Chains.
Aguinaldo Eduardo de Souza, João Gilberto Mendes dos Reis, Antônio Carlos Estender, Jorge Luiz Dias Agia, Oduvaldo Vendrametto, Luciana de Melo Costa, Paula Ferreira da Cruz Correia   +6 more
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Blockchain Enabled Quality Management in Short Food Supply Chains [PDF]

Procedia Computer Science, 2022
Food system (re)localisation involves moving food systems back to local areas and a result are the short food supply chains. Food system (re)localisation is occurring to offset the perceived negative impacts of global food systems. Short food supply chains may face challenges in terms of quality set at national and international levels.
Burgess, Patrick, Sunmola, Funlade, Wertheim-Heck, Sigrid   +2 more
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Barriers and facilitators of purchasing from short food supply chains in europe: insights from a stakeholder perspective [PDF]

International Journal of Food Studies, 2022
Thirty-two expert stakeholder (e.g., consumer advice center, state parliament at regional level, European Network for Rural Development, university and research center, chamber of tourism, rural development association, and social cooperative enterprise)
Verena Hüttl-Maack, Betty Chang, Susanne Braun, Frank Janssen, Jasper Kuitems, Marieke Lameris, Elena Santa Cruz, Begoña Alfaro, Eugenia Petropoulou, Dennis Gawlik, Camille Aouinait, Ágnes Szegedyné Fricz, Ágnes Major, Katalin Kujáni, Adrienn Hegyi, Sophie Hieke, Malou Reipurth, Camila Massri, Christoph Carlen, Danilo Christen   +19 more
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Measuring the economic, environmental, and social sustainability of short food supply chains [PDF]

Sustainability, 2019
The production and distribution of food are among the hot topics debated in the context of sustainable development. Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are now widely believed to be more sustainable in comparison to mass food delivery systems. To date, very
Pierre Wavresky, Áron Török, Veneziani M., Vittersø, Gunnar, Adam Wąs, Richard Freeman, Török, Áron, Mario Veneziani, Mancini, Maria Cecilia, Monia Saïdi, Viet Hoàng, Csillag, Peter, Malak-Rawlikowska A., Jean-Loup Lecoeur, Hoàng, Viet, LECOEUR, Jean-Loup, Nguyen A., Wąs, Adam, Malak-Rawlikowska, Agata, An Nguyen, Saidi M., Gunnar Vittersø, Barbara Tocco, Majewski E., Was A., Maria Cecilia Mancini, Nguyen, An, Majewski, Edward, Freeman, Richard, Tocco, Barbara, Saïdi, Monia, Svein Ole Borgen, Borgen S. O., Mancini M. C., Csillag P., Edward Majewski, Lecoeur J. -L., Vitterso G., Michele Donati, Freeman R., Borgen, Svein Ole, Hoang V., Peter Csillag, Wavresky, Pierre, Tocco B., Agata Malak-Rawlikowska, Torok A., Wavresky P., Donati M., Veneziani, Mario, Donati, Michele   +50 more
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Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) as Local and Sustainable Systems [PDF]

Sustainability, 2020
We distinguish different types of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC); nevertheless, their common main characteristic relate to reduced numbers of intermediaries between farmers/food producers and consumers. The aim of the paper is to present the SFSCs as local and sustainable food systems with their possible development.
Jarzębowski, Sebastian, Bourlakis, Michael, Bezat-Jarzębowska, Agnieszka   +2 more
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Short Food Supply Chains as a Practical Implication of Sustainable Development Ideas

Sustainability
The subject of this article is the issue of short food supply chains. The research problem formulated in the paper aims to address whether short food supply chains ensure the sustainable development of rural areas and whether they are being displaced by ...
Krzysztof Solarz, Agnieszka Dradrach, Magdalena Raftowicz   +2 more
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